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Format
inperson
Location and Room
Books & Books
Address
365 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
The Anti-Enlightenment in Popular Culture: Greed, Hate, Star Wars, and Star TrekThe Anti-Enlightenment in Popular Culture: Greed, Hate, Star Wars, and Star Trek
The Center for the Humanities invites you to an upcoming Book Talk at Books & Books in Coral Gables with George Gonzalez, Professor of Political Science.
In The Anti-Enlightenment in Popular Culture, author George A. Gonzalez argues that the politics of greed and hate lie at the center of the long twentieth century. Using the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, he postulates that within the Anti-Enlightenment mode of thought, history is a cycle between the stability imposed by elites and the instability created by capitalism and an economy founded on greed. Greed corrupts institutions and victimizes people as well as communities, creating hate, anger, and political i...